Sports racket having arcuately curved handle

Abstract

A handle for a sports racket in which the sports racket has a flat hitting portion, an elongated neck extending outwardly from the hitting portion and a handle attached to the free end of the neck. The handle includes an elongated body which is dimensioned to be gripped by a human hand. The body is continuously arcuately curved along its side which improves the feel and comfort of the handle when gripped.

I claim: 
     
       1. A sports racket having a flat hitting portion in a predetermined plane, an elongated neck extending outwardly from the hitting portion, a handle, said handle being attached to a free end of the neck and comprising an elongated body dimensioned to be gripped by a human hand,   said body being continuously arcuately curved along substantially its entire length so that said body has a concavely curved side, a convexly curved side opposite from the concavely curved side and two spaced apart and parallel planar sides extending in between said concavely curved and said convexly curved sides,   wherein said body is arranged so that each planar side lies in a plane which is substantially parallel with said plane of said flat hitting portion,   an outwardly protruding lip at a free end of said handle, wherein said outwardly protruding lip, when viewed from the free end of said handle and looking along the length of the handle, extends entirely along said concavely curved side of said handle and said lip having its ends terminating respectively at intermediate points of said planar sides of said handle and also at positions closely adjacent said concavely curved side so that the free end of said handle on said convex side rests within the palm of the hand and so that said lip extends generally transversely with respect to said plane of said flat hitting portion wherein said lip extends less than halfway around an outer periphery of said handle.   
     
     
       2. The invention as defined in claim 1 wherein said body has a substantially uniform cross sectional shape along substantially its entire length. 
     
     
       3. The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein said handle is polygonal in cross sectional shape.